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Currently under development
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Moving to the gtk-2 widget set.
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Don't expect anything soon. I don't find this an interesting task. One widget
set is much like another, such a conversion is a lot of work and doesn't
involve any functional improvement. (Indeed I am currently ignoring this
because gdk is <EM>less</EM> capable of dealing with images than my own drawing
system -- at least in the ways that matter to me, and I don't want to rewrite
all my image code)
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A command that will allow you to (but this has been listed here for a couple
of years so don't expect anything much)
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Make a character/font bolder
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Extend or Condense a character/font
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Change the X-Height of a font
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Regularize stem widths
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Musings
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multiple baseline support
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Vertical metrics in embedded ttf bitmaps
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Better import of xfig files (a real X-Spline -> Bézier spline
converter)
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Mechanism for creating fonts with multiple instances of the same character,
each slightly different, coupled with a postscript routine which will for
each character in a string, pick a random version of that character to display.
An attempt to yield a slight non-uniformity to the font which may make its
output look more interesting.
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A better way of aligning things. (need some form of grouping that is actually
useful)
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Last updated: 12-Feb-2004
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